It is a spiritual process for the transformation of the collective conscience and the qualification of culture. With a trajectory of 28 years, it has made significant contributions to the construction of peace and national reconciliation and for exercising cultural and fundamental human rights. It will celebrate its 29th version between June 29th and July 6th, 2019.

It is the formative space of the festival, where some invited poets socially project their knowledge and experiences regarding essential issues of our time. Directed to students, teachers interested in poetry, poets, directors of poetry creation workshops.

This is the largest selection of video-poems on the Internet, which about 860 videos, in 85 languages and subtitles in Spanish, with poems from more than 810 poets from 161 countries and 33 indigenous nations.

Prometeo is a Colombian NGO that operates mainly in the cultural sector; it is an independent organization that focus all its activities on the creation, investigation and diffusion of poetry and other forms of artistic expression, as a complement of the actions in favor of the constant transformation of consciousness, individuals and contemporary societies.

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Carlos Andres Jaramillo (Colombia, 1986)

July 8th to 15th, 2017

INVITED POETS

Carlos Andres Jaramillo (Colombia, 1986)

Carlos Andres Jaramillo was born in Medellin in 1986. He is a Colombian poet and narrator. He has studied Philosophy and History of Art. In 2014, he was the winner of one of the Creative Talent Incentives given by the Antioquia Governor’s Office. That same year he published his first book: Extinctions. In 2015, he is chosen as the winner of the 4th Medellin Young Poetry Prize for his book "The Quiet", which also receives (in 2016) a special mention in the Parallel Cero International Poetry Prize in Ecuador. In 2017, he publishes "The Quiet", his second book.